Halter



April 13 192s.

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Patented Apr. 13, 1926.

UNITED STATES T I 1 OMA..S P- BRENNY, or FOLEY, MINNESOTA.

HALTER.

Application filed December 17 1925; Serial No. 75,996.,

To all whom it may canoe-m: 1

Be it known that'I, THOMAS P. BRE-N Y, a citizen of the United States,residing at Foley, in the county of Benton and State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful In'iprovements in Halters, of which thefollowing is a specification.

iv y present invention pertains to halters; and it has for its objectthe provision of a halter of simple and inexpensiveconstruction, capableof ready manipulation for application and removal and possessed of manypractical advantages in other respects.

My invention also contemplates the pro-.

vision. of a halter susceptible of being formed entirely of a singlelength of appropriate rope, without the employment of any extraneousdevices whatsoever, and in such manner that the contacting portionsofthe rope are utilized to afford the necessary frictional contact toprevent casual loosening of the halter on the head of an animal.

Other objects and practical advantages of the invention will be fullyunderstood from the following description and claims when the same areread in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part ofthis specification, in which Figure 1 is a view illustrative of the.halter constituting the best practical embodiment of my invention ofwhich I am cognizant, applied to the head of an animalj Figure 2 is anenlarged broken perspective of the preferred embodiment of my inventionper se.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in bothviews of the drawings.

As above indicated the preferred embodiment of my invention is formed ofa single length of rope designated by 1. One end 2 of the rope isbraided, and the rope is shaped as shown to form a headstall 3 withcheek portions 4-, a nose band 5, and a chin portion 6. One of the cheekportions 4 terminates in a loop 7, thesaid loop 7 being formed byinterlacing of portions of the rope lengths as designated by 8. The chinportion extends from the said interlaced or interlocked portions, and isprovided with an intermediate loop 9 and an end loop'lO, the said loops10. and 9 being formed by interlacing portions. of the rope lengths atthe points 11 and 12, Figure 2. The other cheek portion 4 is passedloosely through the intermediateloop 9, the end loop 7, and the endloop. 10, in the order named, and hence it will be manifest that whenthe free end portion of the length of rope is pulled upon,

the nose band 5 and the head stall 3 will be tightened upon the head ofthe animal, and the strongerthe pull exerted on the said free endportion, the more tightlywill the halter be bound upon the head oftheanimal.

It will also be manifest that being formed of rope the halter will becharacterized by a considerable degree of frictional contact between theloop portions andthe rope length passed through the said loops, and inconsequence there is little or no liability of the head stall, nose bandor chin latch becoming casually loose even when, no pull is exerted onthe free endportion, and, therefore, there is no liability of an animalbeing able to free itself from the halter.

- In addition to the foregoing advantages peculiar to my novel halter,it will be noted that the. double loops including the loops 9 and at oneside of the nose band 5 prevent slipping of the head stall so that thereis no liability of the animal being choked by the chin latch formed bythe passage of the rope length through the loops 7 and 10, iii-the ordernamed.

IVhen desired the halter may be converted into a las:o by simplywithdrawing the rope length from the loops 10, 7 and 9, and then passingthe rope length through the loop 10 alone. Again the halter may be usedaround the neck of an animal by extending the rope length afterwithdrawal of the same from the loops 10, 7 and 9 through the loop 7alone or by inserting the center loop in the first or second end loopsand then passing the rope through the center loop.

IVhile I have described the preferred em bodimentof my invention indetail, I do not desire to be understood as confining myself to all ofthe specific characteristics se' forth, my invention being defined by myappended claims within the scope of which changes is structure andarrangement may be made without departure from my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters- Patent, is

1. A halter formed of a single. length of rope and having a head stall,av nose band, and a chin latch; one of the cheekportions of the headstallbeing provided with an end loop and with interlaced portionimmediately above the said end loop, and the nose band being merged intosaid interlaced portion and being merged, in turn, and provided with anintermediate loop and with an end loop, and the other cheek portion ofthe head stall being passed through the said intermediate loop of thechin latch and being also passed through the first named end loop andthe second named end loop in the order named.

2. A halter comprising a head stall, with cheek portions one of whichterminates in a loop and the other of which terminates in a rope length,a no:e hand extending from the first-named cheek portion adjacent to theloop thereof and provided with an intern'iediate loop and an end loop,and a chin latch formed by the said rope length passed through theintermediate loop, the first named end loop, and the second named endloop in the sequence indicated.

3. A halter including a head stall, with check portions a loop formingthe terminal vof one cheek portion, and a nose band e3:-

tending from said cheek portion adjacent to said loop and having aninter-med ate end portion adapted in conjunction with the first-namedloop for the reception and play of a length of the material of which thehalter is formed.

In testimony whereof I afhx n'iy gnature.

THOMAS P. BRENNY.

